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Ted and Joel have had a LOT of conversations, not only with each other, but also with the various guests of VENN. The script is flipped this week as Alyssa Boyd and Anne Maya Yalamanchili from the mini-magazine, Dearest Delight, interview Ted and Joel on what it means to have a good conversation. Winter is a time where we typically spend more time indoors with fewer people - typically, those we love the most. How do we get past small talk and ask questions that matter? How can we get past our own insecurities and social limitations to truly be vulnerable?

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Tim Fall is a Superior Court Judge in California who faced a contender for his elected office in 2008. This challenge led Fall on a journey where he faced the greatest mental health challenge of his life. This experience transformed Fall, increasing his capacity for empathy and leading him to be a public voice for justice for the marginalized through his blog. Joel and Ted interview Fall on his career as a judge and the nature of the challenges he has faced in his career.

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Running for Judge: Campaigning on the Trail of Despair, Deliverance, and Overwhelming Success

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We’re back with one of y’all’s favorite (and least favorite) topics: personality testing. Ted and Joel discuss the results of some advanced statistical analysis of the VENN community, evaluate the advanced Enneagram approach of a “functional neurologist” (whatever that means), and develop their own personality model. Is this new model any good, or is it a load of baloney? You decide!

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Dr. Jerome Lubbe on the Enneagram

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Let’s go to the movies! Caleb Sarber is a philosophy-major-turned-film-critic who explores the intricacies of visual media, and he faithfully hangs out with Ted and Joel weekly in their fraternity, Brothers Under Film (BYΦ). What do movies teach us about ourselves? Is Joel crazy for only having seen his favorite films once or twice? What were the most under- and overrated films from the 90s?

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We’ve all been there. Enneagram. Meyers-Briggs. “Which Friends character are you?” These tests allegedly tell us a lot about ourselves, but do they really tell us anything? Are they actually useful in helping us grow and accomplish what we want to accomplish? Are there really only 4 (or 9, or 16) types of people in the world? Ted tries (and fails) to correctly guess Joel's StrengthsFinder results, while Joel gives a ghost-pepper level spicy take on all four-type personality tests. Additionally, Ted attempts to Enneagram-type the great powers of world order, in hopes of starting a viral Instagram account.

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2020 has been a wild year for Planet Earth, and many of us would like this roller coaster to end. Unfortunately, the threat of climate change looms over the horizon, and we have already seen its effects on our most vulnerable populations. Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist whose research focuses on understanding what climate change means for people and the places where we live. She is an endowed professor in the Dept. of Political Science at Texas Tech University, she hosts the PBS digital series Global Weirding, and she has been named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People. Joel and Ted interview Dr. Hayhoe on what we can actually do about climate change, as well as what to do when you run into Martha Stewart at an awards ceremony.

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Tier Blundell is a PhD candidate in Intellectual History at the University of Oxford - so it may come as a surprise to you that he was once a professional mixed martial artist. Tier joins the VENN boys to tell the story of his rise from a council estate (public housing) to the world of MMA, and then eventually to academia. The conversation includes discussion of educational policy, the cycle of poverty, and pretension in academia.

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Editor’s note: the slave trader mentioned is named Edward Colston (not Thomas Cranmer).

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We're sure you've been dying to hear two guys who kinda-sorta listen to Taylor Swift give their extremely uninformed takes and half-baked interpretations of the new album, folklore. You're in luck! Joel and Ted kick back, relax, and give their freshest musical insight on a recent phenomenon. Is Taylor Swift indie now? What does indie even mean?  Will Ted ever listen to happy music? Will Joel ever become famous? These questions and more are explored in this special laid-back episode of VENN, brought to you by Chipotle. Eat fresh. 

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Recent events have brought discussions on structural racism, anti-colonialism, and white supremacy to the forefront of public discourse. Jyothis James is a PhD student in Philosophy at Texas A&M University, and his research focuses on Anti-Colonial Epistemology and approaches to philosophy outside of the Western Canon. We discuss how to integrate concepts from philosophy to modern political and social discourse, and the boys talk about one of their favorite topics: fashion.

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Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon

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Ted and Joel are both former graduate students, but that doesn't mean they’re nerds! In this episode, the hosts discuss how they have integrated a sense of adventure into their intellection, and vice versa. Joel talks about his new hobbies of flower-picking, tree-climbing, slacklining, and dog-sitting, and Ted once again pines for a coffee-related sponsorship deal.

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